• Thursday, March 28, 2024
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Chevron, Lonadek partner to improve local professionals performance

Chevron Nigeria

Chevron Nigeria Limited in a bid to close the gap between expatriates and local competency has partnered with Lonadek Inc. an engineering, technology, and innovation solutions company to boost capacity of local professionals.

Speaking during the Drilling and Completion Programme Induction Workshop held recently in Lagos, Principal Consultant, Lonadek, Ibilola Amao, said the purpose of the programme was not to compete with expatriates, but to boost and improve the performance of local professionals.

Amao said the programme organisers partnered with institutions, organisations, and clients to develop capacity, capabilities and competencies of professionals in the Nigeria.

According to her, “This workshop gives professionals the opportunity to go online and identify role models, mentors and coaches, who are Nigerians, local and in diaspora that will support them throughout the six months programme and the 5 year certification programme.

“More so, the programme would also bridge the gap between industry and academia, as it sets to strike top-notch centers of excellence to upgrade designing curriculums and industry interventions to improve the quality of graduates.

“It would also promote lecturers skills to provide improved lectures, laboratories, courses and research development and facilitate meaningful durations of equipment sort as materials by higher learning institutions.”

She further noted that part of the benefits of the training is that it would house various training opportunities to build experts, rather than having different projects.

The Lonadek managing director maintained that the programme would not just see to the training of professionals for one year and abandon them, but would up skilled and empower them on their jobs to continue on their own with the support of their training, learning and development managers, human resource managers, and supervisors in their companies.

“Chevron has actually invested in Lonadek to proffer innovative and holistic solutions to bridge the gap in drilling and completions”.

“We are pulling resources together to enhance performance through collaborations and hope to domesticate technology and expertise in the country, which would result to a pool of highly skilled personnel.

“In all of these, we want to see to the establishment of world class centers of excellence with certified lecturers and state of the art facilities, which would produce industry value projects.

“We opine that if we empower individuals and their companies in collaboration with their human resource managers, the performance of delivering drilling and completions projects by Nigerians in Nigeria would improve and the cost of projects and contracts would drop at the end of the day,” she added.

She opined that the programme would reduce operational capital expenditure with more Nigerian highly skilled work force, noting that the organisers seeks to reduce the huge funds spent on drilling and completion expatriates.

In her remarks, Anike Odunlami, general manager, Nigeria Content Development, Chevron Nigeria, said the initiative was basically to develop and train drilling and completions professionals to become world class professionals in well planning and design, management of well operations, and project management.

“This recent development and initiative is actually in compliance with the requirements of the Nigerian Oil and Gas Content Development Act, which was passed into law in 2010 and reflects Chevron Nigeria’s commitment to Nigeria content development.

“Chevron in partnership with the Nigerian Content and Human Capital Development (NCHCD) division of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) have continued to train and equip Nigerians to deliver value in the oil and gas industry through exposure to executive and management trainings, and professional skills trainings during project executions.

She congratulated NCDMB for its contribution to Nigeria content development especially in developing and harnessing in-country capabilities.

She commended Lonadek Nigeria Limited, who is the initiative implementing partner for its commitment in providing opportunities for young Nigerian drilling and completions professionals with five to eight years’ experience to acquire skills to excel in the oil and gas industry.

However, she stimulated the trainees to participate effectively in all the trainings and leverage on all the platforms available and to also use the opportunity to expand the scope of their knowledge, build competence and expand their horizon.

 

KELECHI EWUZIE